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new issue of Zukunft on Jewish Music

The yiddish literary journal the Zukunft is now in its 110th year. It
is the oldest Yiddish periodical today. The current issue is a
special issue with a focus on Jewish Music.

This issue of the Zukunft (vol. 107, no.1) is available from The
Congress for Jewish Culture for $6.00. A subscription to the Zukunft,
a quarterly is $30.00. Please make checks out to the Congress for
Jewish Culture. Please subscribe and have your library subscribe too!

Feature articles :

Lyudmilla Sholokhova "Di folklor-zamlung fun Moyshe Beregovski" [The
Folklore Collection of Moyshe Beregovski]. Ms. Sholokhova was the
cataloguer of the Beregovski-Anski collection in the Vernadsky
Library in Kiev and editor of the 800 page catalogue to that
collection.

Jeffrey Wollock, "Fun kleyn-shtetldikn klezmer biz kontsert-virtuoz"
[From small town klezmer to concert virtuoso]. It seems to be common
knowledge that the roots of the great Jewish violinists were in
klezmer music, but no one talks about the specifics, how the change
through the generations happened. Mr. Wollock shows in detail
exactly how this transformation occured in several famous musical
families.[part one only]

Itzik Gottsman "Der oyfleb fun klezmer-muzik: sakh-haklen nokh 25
yor" [The klezmer revival: conclusions after 25 years]. This essay is
divided into: the beginnings of the revival; klezmer music in Germany
- a thesis; the new literature about klezmer music and the revival;
what does the klezmer-revival lack?

Comments

I've tried emailing the Congress at the address you give, to find out the cost for a copy of this magazine to be posted to Australia.
Both times the emails have been returned.
Can you confirm their email address?
Thanks.
Al Drummond